From the Library of William Michael Rossetti

LATINI, Brunetto.

Il Tesoretto e il favoletto … ridotti a miglior lezione col soccorso dei codici e illustrati dall’abate Gio. Batista Zanoni … Florence, Giuseppe Molini, 1824.

8vo, pp. [iii]–lxiii, [1], 259, [1], wanting a half-title; scattered foxing, but a good copy in later stiff vellum, gilt; ownership inscription of William Michael Rossetti, with a marginal pencil note questioning some dates on p. ix.

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An important edition of this verse treasury of knowledge by Brunetto Latini (c. 1220–1294), friend and ‘teacher’ of Dante, who nevertheless placed him his third ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, along with the blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers.

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From the Library of William Michael Rossetti

LATINI, Brunetto.

Il Tesoretto e il favoletto … ridotti a miglior lezione col soccorso dei codici e illustrati dall’abate Gio. Batista Zanoni … Florence, Giuseppe Molini, 1824.